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Those? If you count 2 you must remove the pass to Smitty then so the answer is no.

Not sure I agree. Smitty got a little more attention after that TD, plus he seemed to hobble around a bit afterwards as well.

That play could have been made at another, more important point later in the game as the defense probably thought #25 could cover 89 deep by himself. They learned he couldn't and didn't leave their DBs alone as much.

All that to say, if SF doesn't make adjustments based on that pass, then Smitty could have beat his man deep any time during the game - perhaps even the first drive in the 2nd half.

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Those? If you count 2 you must remove the pass to Smitty then so the answer is no.

The first goal line stand wasn't the issue... they held and got the ball and punted then we immediately scored.

The second one would have changed the entire game imo. It would have put us up 17-6 before half (17-13 had they still scored) and probably changed the entire dynamic of our team coming out in the 2nd half.

However, those things are impossible to know though since it didn't happen that way.